To understand why Br- adds to a carbon of the bromonium ion rather than to the positively charged bromine, draw the product that would be obtained if Br- did add to bromine.

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To understand why Br- adds to a carbon of the bromonium ion rather than to the positively charged bromine, draw the product that would be obtained if Br- did add to bromine.

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